Why does nothing ever change in Thunder Bay?

The Thunder Bay official crest on a fountain at City Hall. (Melissa Tait / The Globe and Mail) The Globe and Mail

By The Big Story

Posted March 17, 2022 7:17 am.

In today’s Big Story podcast, Thunder Bay, Ont., already had a reputation as a place with a racist police force, uninvestigated Indigenous deaths and missing persons who were barely even searched for. So it shouldn’t be shocking that new reports this month confirmed more of exactly that. But somehow it is.

These issues have been well known for many years now—why has nothing changed? What is the municipal government prepared to do about it? What would actually make a difference?

GUEST: Willow Fiddler, The Globe and Mail

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